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A fact from Lavinia Williams appeared on Wikipedia's
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I am astonished that Lavinia Williams did not already have an article. I first heard her name in Leon Theremin and was fascinated by their star-crossed love story. But when I searched for her on the internet, I found she had lived a remarkable life with a long and influential international career... and the pages that discuss her make no mention of Theremin! Then when I searched for Theremin, I found a number of sites that referred to his African-American dancer wife as "Iavana Williams", though also several called her "Lavinia" and they were not just clones of the Wikipedia article. So, in short, I would like a source more authoritative than the internet before simply stating this tidbit to be true—hence the "citation needed" tag.
For more on this, please see my post to Talk:Léon Theremin.
EsdnePyaJ 15:01, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
Update: I found this source [1], the site seems credible but no credits or sources are given for this particular article. Maybe we can e-mail them and find out the 411. EsdnePyaJ 13:02, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Not very helpful, but fact-checks the claim that S. Y. is a professional dancer.
The first is listed in the Allen piece, the rest are in an archived listserv post ( [12]) that I found when I did a quick internet search for Williams. I could only find one of them when I ran my own quick library catalog search, so I'm just putting the others here, please add them into the article if you can confirm they exist and fill out the citations.
I need to stop now, but there's definitely a lot of room for expanding the piece.
EsdnePyaJ 06:32, 24 September 2006 (UTC), updated 18:32, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
There is no evidence that Leon Theremin was "abducted" and taken back to the USSR. The claims that he was taken against his will stem from the film Theremin, an Electronic Odyssey, and are third hand hearsay. Glinsky's bio of Theremin is researched, sourced, and shows that Theremin went back to the USSR of his own free will (probably to escape tax troubles in the USA). THD3 ( talk) 17:51, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
I haven't seen any account of the formal end of her marriage to Theremin. Did they divorce before he left the U.S.? Did she get a divorce because he had deserted her and fled abroad? If anyone knows, perhaps this should go into the article. Pascalulu88 ( talk) 21:48, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
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A fact from Lavinia Williams appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the
Did you know column on 27 September 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:
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I am astonished that Lavinia Williams did not already have an article. I first heard her name in Leon Theremin and was fascinated by their star-crossed love story. But when I searched for her on the internet, I found she had lived a remarkable life with a long and influential international career... and the pages that discuss her make no mention of Theremin! Then when I searched for Theremin, I found a number of sites that referred to his African-American dancer wife as "Iavana Williams", though also several called her "Lavinia" and they were not just clones of the Wikipedia article. So, in short, I would like a source more authoritative than the internet before simply stating this tidbit to be true—hence the "citation needed" tag.
For more on this, please see my post to Talk:Léon Theremin.
EsdnePyaJ 15:01, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
Update: I found this source [1], the site seems credible but no credits or sources are given for this particular article. Maybe we can e-mail them and find out the 411. EsdnePyaJ 13:02, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Not very helpful, but fact-checks the claim that S. Y. is a professional dancer.
The first is listed in the Allen piece, the rest are in an archived listserv post ( [12]) that I found when I did a quick internet search for Williams. I could only find one of them when I ran my own quick library catalog search, so I'm just putting the others here, please add them into the article if you can confirm they exist and fill out the citations.
I need to stop now, but there's definitely a lot of room for expanding the piece.
EsdnePyaJ 06:32, 24 September 2006 (UTC), updated 18:32, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
There is no evidence that Leon Theremin was "abducted" and taken back to the USSR. The claims that he was taken against his will stem from the film Theremin, an Electronic Odyssey, and are third hand hearsay. Glinsky's bio of Theremin is researched, sourced, and shows that Theremin went back to the USSR of his own free will (probably to escape tax troubles in the USA). THD3 ( talk) 17:51, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
I haven't seen any account of the formal end of her marriage to Theremin. Did they divorce before he left the U.S.? Did she get a divorce because he had deserted her and fled abroad? If anyone knows, perhaps this should go into the article. Pascalulu88 ( talk) 21:48, 8 June 2024 (UTC)